Public employee pensions paid in part by the city of Celina, Mercer County and local schools account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual expenditures, according to local officials.
"It's a significant amount of money . . .

It's not exactly "Field of Dreams", where the phrase "If you build it, they will come" became a part of the lexicon.
But once the FieldTurf infield was placed on what became Montgomery Field in Celina's Eastview Park, the ACME . . .

John J. Hinders, 86, Celina, died at 1:52 p.m. July 19, 2011, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton.
He was born May 30, 1925, in Celina, to Judge Homer J. and Emma Louise Pax Hinders. On Sept. 16, 1950, he married Jean Elaine Ren . . .

Robert H. Hegemier, 88, St. Marys, died at 2:15 a.m. at St. Marys Living Center.
He was born Jan. 12, 1923, in Ansonia, to Emil and Martha Vogel Hegemier. On May 27, 1944, he married Mary Lea Schamp, who survives.
Also surviv . . .

Former Celina resident Antionette K. Schoch, 89, St. Louis, Mo., died July 19, 2011, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis.
She was born April 4, 1922, in St. Peter, to Frank and Cecelia Brown Link. On June 20, 1946, sh . . .